Ancient Wine : : The Search for the Origins of Viniculture /

Ancient Wine : : The Search for the Origins of Viniculture / / Patrick E. McGovern.

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The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the earliest stages of vinicultural history and prehistory, which extends back into the Neolithic period and beyond. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Ancient Win...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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McGovern, Patrick E.,
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Mondavi, Robert G.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:With a New foreword by Robert G. Mondavi
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 color illus. 35 halftones. 9 line illus. 7 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword / Mondavi, Robert G.
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. Stone Age Wine
  • CHAPTER 2. The Noah Hypothesis
  • CHAPTER 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine
  • CHAPTER 4. Neolithic Wine!
  • CHAPTER 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs
  • CHAPTER 6. Wine of Egypt's Golden Age
  • CHAPTER 7. Wine of the World's First Cities
  • CHAPTER 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East
  • CHAPTER 9. The Holy Land's Bounty
  • CHAPTER 10. Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia
  • CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World
  • CHAPTER 12. Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits and Object Dimensions
  • Index

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